KUALA LUMPUR: The residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras are happy and relieved that the issue concerning the toll-free access road is settled for now.

However, they wished that it could have been solved much earlier and without the need for the situation to turn tense.

Bandar Mahkota Cheras Open Access Road Committee chairman Tan Boon Wah said the Government should not have let the issue drag on for more than two years.

“However, I am glad that it has come to a happy ending and the rakyat is grateful for the Works Minister’s announcement,” he said in reaction to Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed's announcement that the Cabinet had decided that the road into Bandar Cheras Mahkota should not be barricaded.

Jubilant residents: Bandar Mahkota Cheras Open Access Road Committee chairman Tan Boon Wah being tossed into the air by several residents after Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed announced that the controversial toll-free access road leading to Bandar Mahkota Cheras would remain open.